Maryland Sen Van Hollen Meets Kilmar Abrego García in El Salvador

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in grailled to be
with you a bunch of stuff to talk about, including
what happened yesterday in Florida and some of the sort
of predictable secondary conversations that seem to forgive or at
least forget about the person who chose to harm other
people and take life before I get there, though I'm annoyed,

(00:39):
I'm going to do this, but I am going to
do this, even on a good Friday holiday show. I'm
going to start with a conversation about a politician who
desperately wanted to be in the news. Chris van Holland
is a name that you've probably heard recently. A senator
who demanded he got an opportunity to be face to
face with the alleged MS thirteen gang member who was

(01:03):
deported out of our country, who wasn't supposed to be
sent out of our country. Abrego Garcia. There's several aspects
to this story that matter, and they matter beyond your politics.
I will promise you that you didn't hear all of
these things if you watch some of these media outlets
that were praising the senator for trying to get face

(01:23):
to face with this individual. Before I do any of that,
I just have to play some of the ridiculous audio
that's out there of all the different people saying, you know,
how great this is or how important it is that
Van Holland got to sit in the same room with
a potential MS thirteen member, Because it's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
There's no other way to say it.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Some of the craziness of the coverage of this story
is insane because it's news media doing that thing that
news media does where it cares more about itself than us,
than people, or than anyone that actually say wants to
know the real news or real stories. Instead, it only
cares about congratulating itself or doing some other things to

(02:07):
itself that make no sense to the rest of us.
But here is part of the audio of some individuals
appraising the efforts by a senator to be in the
news himself. Because the one other thing I'll say about
this before I hit play on any of this stuff
is it had no chance of succeeding, meaning the senator
had no ability to get the person that he claimed

(02:28):
he cared about back into our country. Al Salvador will
not be releasing this person back to us or out
of jail in general, so none of that will be happening.
But nonetheless, a senator went and tried to visit someone
because they wanted to be the center of attention, not
because they actually cared about doing what they claim is good.
But what a whole lot of us would probably disagree

(02:51):
as a beneficial thing. I don't think a lot of
us want this person back, and I'll tell you why
in just a bit. But here this is Morning Joe
talking about how important this whole story is.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Any case, so much continuing to happen. In this case
of Garcia, of Brego Garcia, a man who was the
government I mean, let's just say up fun again, the
government admitted they made a mistake. And of course that's
because in twenty nineteen he was provided protection by a

(03:23):
judge in his case who determined he couldn't be sent
back to l Salvador. And that was a decision that
the Trump administration back in twenty nineteen went along with,
did not appeal, did not appeal him being released from jail.
And obviously they didn't appeal that because the so called

(03:43):
evidence that he was a gang member. I think somebody
informant said he was a gang member in an area
where he had never been before in his life. You
know the case.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Come on now, apart he was released.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Okay, let's get to the actual case in this stuff
before we keep going into all the praise for the
senator who went there. So a bunch of places have
reported on this. BBC is one of those places that
I decided to use because the BBC is usually accused
of being liberal, if anything at all, or at times
covering us more fairly than we cover ourselves. They say

(04:18):
that in twenty nineteen, Abrego Garcia was found in the
parking lot of a local establishment in the area loitering,
and he was subsequently identified as a member of MS
thirteen by a trustworthy informant. That identification is at the
heart of why he's not allowed to be sent back

(04:39):
to El Salvador, by the way, because two other judges
upheld a viable testimony and evidence that he was probably
a member of MS thirteen, and they said that the
reason he can't be sent back to El Salvador is
he was likely to be harmed by a rival gang.
To MS thirteen, that's Barrio eighteen. I feel weird giving

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all this information out on the radio, but it matters.
It's important. So the protection order comes from the idea
that he would be harmed by other gangs. Since then,
Abrego Garcia has been arrested multiple times, or at least
he's been pulled over by cops multiple times. There was
a lawsuit filed and a protective order petition filed by

(05:21):
his wife in twenty twenty one, claiming that he had
physically attacked her on multiple occasions. The press doesn't tell
you about this. Also, in April or excuse me, April
of last year, he was pulled over for suspected human trafficking.
There were individuals in a car with him. He eventually
was allowed to be let go, but there was a

(05:42):
suspicion that there was human trafficking involved and again another
connection to potential MS thirteen gang activity. So there are
many many indications that the individual not only is likely
connected to the gang, but because of that was supposed
to stay in our country for a protective order. When
the Trump administration starts going after MS thirteen, specifically, there

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is a chance that you then deport someone in this
situation that you're not supposed to deport legally, that El
Salvador is not giving back to us because they have
reason to think that he's committed crimes, etc.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Etc. And it's just insane.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
And like I said, I have many many other pieces
of audio of people praising Van Holland, the senator, and
talking about how important it is to try to get
this guy back into our country, an individual who likely
is very much tied to a horrible, ruthless gang that
has been wreaking havoc in the United States for years now.

(06:42):
It is it is insane that this is the individual
that you want to defend this way, and you want
to leave out portions of the story that make a
lot of Americans likely to support him not coming back.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I'll play a little bit more and then we'll move on.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Democratic voters have been going to their leaders and saying,
we want you to do something, we want you to
step in. They've been calling for actions of a kind Mariland,
Senator van Holland, did do that?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Did it work?

Speaker 7 (07:08):
So to speak?

Speaker 6 (07:09):
Kind of what do you see in that moment?

Speaker 8 (07:11):
So he's my home state senator, and I can tell
you we're certainly feeling around the state this enthusiasm that
someone in power is actually trying to do something to
check the imbalance and power we have right now.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
The Senate is a powerful body.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, I got to sound right there. What's crazy to
me about all of this? And then, like I said,
I want to move on and talk about other things.
What's crazy to me about all of this is you
choose your heroes, if that's even the right word for it,
in media, based on who you believe the villain to be.
You don't choose your heroes because you think they're actually heroes,
and you don't even care about any of the sins

(07:45):
of your heroes as long as you're attacking the right villain.
And in case this case, media needs to attack Trump
and his policy even if a wide amount of Americans
actually support it. The other crazy thing out there about
Trump's immigration policy, and this is also from CNN, which
is audio I was just playing also from that station,

(08:05):
where they admit that fifty six percent of Americans support
the idea of kicking everyone out of the country who's
here illegally. Everyone, all eleven million people should be removed.
Fifty six percent of Americans now agree with that, and
because of that Trump has an approval rating over fifty
percent when you talk about his policies with you know, immigration,

(08:27):
So I think it's so interesting and so willfully just
ignored so many pieces of this for us to get
to the point where people are saying that this is
a hero that needs to be saved and brought back
to his family, when the reality of who he is
and the things that define the reason why he's even
been you know, removed from our country are just simply
left out of the discussion all together, to not benefit anyone,

(08:50):
but to make the hero argument stronger and to make
the villain argument about you know, the Trump administration the
focal point of a discussion. All right, One other thing
I do want to play and this is in reaction
to what happened at a college campus in Florida yesterday.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
There was a shooting. Lives were lost.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Trump was asked about gun control, and what I think
is so important about this discussion too, and kind of
the way it reflects the other a belief I have
And the other story we're just talking about is how
quickly media goes to vilify the gun and in doing so,
it seems to almost excuse the behavior of the person.
The focus of most media after any of these events,

(09:32):
which only stays in our public consciousness for a day
or two, is whether or not gun control would prevent
these horrible tragedies. There's a lot of data that says
it wouldn't, and that's irrelevant to a lot of that media.
And this was a handgun, so even more so a
relevant to that media. But in focusing on this, you
tend to forget about talking about the human who committed

(09:53):
the crime and the things that we need to do
to fix people to not want to cause this horrible
thing our society in the first place, the mental illness
or you know, evil, whatever it might be that exists
in the hearts of some we immediately excuse that discussion,
maybe because it's too hard to get to you. But
here's Trump responding to someone asking if gun control is

(10:14):
the answer.

Speaker 9 (10:15):
There are now too deceased following that shooting at Florida
State University.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Going in amid that, is there any.

Speaker 10 (10:22):
Changes that you want to see to gun legislation, anything
you see broken with.

Speaker 11 (10:25):
Gun laws and art, Well, I'm going to have to look.
I'm a big advocate of the Second Amendment. I have
been from the beginning. I protected it. And these things
are terrible, But the gun doesn't do the shooting. The
people do. It's you know, a phrase, it's used probably
too often. I will tell you that it's a shame.

(10:46):
I'm just hearing about it now. I just hear about it.
I know the area very well, I know the school
very well, know everything about It's Florida. And we'll have
more to say about it later after you want to say.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
There will be more to say.

Speaker 11 (10:59):
About it, only in terms of what happened. As far
as legislation is concerned, this has been going on for
a long time. I have an obligation to protect the
Second Amendment. I ran on the Second Amendment, among many
other things, and I will always protect the Second Amendment.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
And again, any sort of discussion about legislation wouldn't have
prevented this crime because it was a handgun that was
used to harm people. But nonetheless, this is the focus
of media so often, and there's so much ability to
ignore the actual problem or the actual.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Perpetrator of the crime, which is to me.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
In say, but yet we're in this world we live
in where we have these discussions.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
For whatever reason.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
I hope we can have fun on a holiday and
move on from the seriousness of these topics. But it's
just something that makes you shake your head and go,
why why does this keep happening the way it does?

Speaker 2 (11:48):
All right, Well, take a break. A lot coming up.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
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Speaker 3 (13:40):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you over the holiday.
Chad will be back on Tuesday. I'll actually be back
with you after Easter Sunday. Let's do some quick stupid
stories that are out there in the world. First, New
Yorkers looking to save as much money as possible on
their groceries because everything is very expense especially in a

(14:01):
city as expensive as New York. So apparently they're turning
to the New York City park system, and they're picking
anything they can find there, whether it's quote, high end mushrooms,
pricey berries, even coffee plants that people might be growing
themselves or finding in the New York parks. This is
not a move that's being recommended by the authorities in
New York City, but it is something that people are

(14:23):
doing anyway. And a lot of social media posts about
this claiming all the places you can go to get
certain things. One is claiming that in Central Park there
is some Kentucky coffee plants that may or may not
have been planted by somebody there.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
You can go ahead and help yourself too.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
A lot of community park resources being used because people
right now don't know how to pay for their actual groceries.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I'm not judging.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
I'm just again saying that the system itself is claiming
you shouldn't be doing this. Also a story out there
that went very viral. A guy went on a podcast
which is never a good move now, I'm kidding, and
talked about the workout bikini. He's a gym owner that
said that a lot of young women are now showing
up to take social media photos at his gym. Maybe

(15:08):
women in their twenties and thirties and they're wearing very
short shorts and a sports bra and nothing else to
the gym. He calls it the jim bikini. He says
it's been a fat over the last few years and
he's annoyed by it. In response to that, people in
social media have been showing up in the gym in
their jim bikinis and posting photos, so the exact thing

(15:28):
he didn't want is happening even more. I find it
hilarious that the claim that people want attention is rejected
by the people who are upset about this, and then
their decision is to run to social media and post
themselves in scantily claud outfits at the gym. But what
do I know about this stuff? This is just me
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show. And

(15:50):
I guess my biggest question, outside of the fact that
women get mad at dudes who look at them while
wearing almost nothing at the gym, is how they can
actually say themselves, these are the ladies that do this,
that they're not looking for attention from someone.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
It might not be the person who's looking at them.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
And I'm not saying that you have carte blanche ability
to be a creeper at the gym. I'm just saying
that sometimes the action and the reaction are predictable and
the reason for those things, at least if we're going
to have an honest conversation about it without trying to
vilify one side, means that everybody might be doing something
where they knew what was going to happen when they

(16:26):
made the decision they made. If you show up to
the gym in almost no clothing and you're a younger woman,
there is a chance that some of the dudes who
are at that gym might look at you that feels
like a byproduct of decision making. Again, I'm not saying
that they're allowed to be creeps. I'm just saying that
this is not a shocking reaction, even if media and
social media and young people act like it is. But

(16:48):
I love the fact that, in response to a guy
complaining that his gym has been overrun by people that
want to take social media photos in almost no clothing,
was for a whole bunch of other people to show
up at gym's in almost no clothing and take social
media photos.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
This is the world we live in.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
You can't fix anything by trying to have a conversation
about it. You will only get more the same and
also be told you're a horrible person for saying that
part to begin with, the part out loud that no
one wants you to say. But if you want more
information about this and to do your own research, work
out bikini is viral all over social media, specifically TikTok.
I'm not necessarily recommending you do this, especially at work.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
In on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 13 (17:38):
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Speaker 1 (18:00):
I'm Benson's show.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about out there in the world. Let's
start with this. I find this very interesting that so
many different discussions we have. Now you need to know
who the bad guy is. The good guy was talking
about this a little bit ago, and you need to

(18:24):
have an opinion before they've even gotten to the point
where they give you the end result. Say they're doing
research into something, this is one example I'll use, and
they just claim that the research is starting, people online
or people in certain media circles go crazy and they
don't even wait for the actual research to happen and
the information to be given. This case in point, if

(18:45):
you can't understand what I'm trying to say, here the
point I'm trying to make Secretary Kennedy, who, of course
RFK Junior has been attacked a bunch for his role
within our health department in general, but he was talking
recently on Fox News about how he's looking into the
cause of autism and that in the near future we
might know what that is why there has been such

(19:06):
a steep increase in the amount of people that have autism. This,
on its face, before you say anything political, before you
say the names of the people involved, seems like something
that'd be good.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
We're looking into the causes of something that.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Is affecting more people, and we'll give you more information
about it where you know, allocating resources towards this. All
of that on its face seems good. Again, most people
have decided it's terrible. Here's what Robert F. Kennedy Junior
said about what they're doing.

Speaker 14 (19:35):
Well, President Trump asks me to find out what's causing
it and I'm approaching that agnostically. I'm looking we are
looking at everything we're going to do. We're going to
be very transparent how we design the studies. We're going
to form the studies out to fifteen premier research groups
from all over the country, and we're going to be

(19:56):
transparent about our protocols, about the data sets, and then
every study will have to be replicated. We're gonna look
at mold, We're gonna look at at at the age
of parents. We're gonna look at food and food additives.
We're gonna look at pesticides and toxic exposures. We're gonna

(20:16):
look at medicines. We're gonna look at vaccines. We're gonna
look at everything.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
And you terrible, horrible person, How tare you?

Speaker 3 (20:24):
That feels like that has to be the reaction to
this story because Robert F. Kennedy Junior was told by
President Trump, who's obviously the worst man ever do exist
in society according to some people out there, to look
into the cause of autism, and he mentioned all the
things they're going to assume could be causing it, including
a bunch of stuff that people are not afraid of

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being the inevitable cause of autism, mold, you know, parental age,
some things that people might assume are part of that.
He did say vaccines, though he did say food additives.
He said all the stuff that makes people mad. And
I just find this, I think this is a good
way to trigger into the topic, but so amusing, not
the you know, autism stuff itself or what causes it,

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but the needed reaction to these discussions and the needed villain.
And there's so many different cases or conversations today where
I think I can point to that same exact thing happening,
where someone determines, going into you know, a set a
news story, who the good guy is, who the bad
guy is, who they believe, who they have to disagree with,

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and then from there, you know, run wild. And I
don't say things like the Second Amendment is important because
I'm a dirty conservative who needs to say that out loud,
or needs to be a terrible person that doesn't care
about people who get hurt if they're the victim of
a shooting or the victim of a you know, mass
shooting or anything like what happened the other day in

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Florida on a college campus. It's not because of that
that you have a belief that you're radicalized into one
side of the camp or the other politically, But for
a lot of people, it's because you've given more thought
to the topic than just whether or not I'm supposed
to be on one side or the other. And I
think what anoys a lot of individuals about these discussions

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is how quickly someone else who's going to argue with
you has made up their mind based on what side
of the what side of the argument they're supposed to
be on, what side they think is politically okay, or
you know, socially okay. I just find that so amusing,
or I don't know, probably more negative words can be
used too, But if you just on its face, to

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go back to the example of RFK Junior, listen to
what he said, I don't know how you have a
problem with it. And if the end result of the
information they share, and if they're not transparent enough which
he promised to be for you to doubt some of
that information, then maybe have the reaction that I don't
agree with this for these reasons. But more and more
people don't even seem like they believe that they need

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that information.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
I need any of this.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
I can just say that I disagree with it. I
can say that it's terrible and I feel good about that.
And here I'll prove my point another way. I'll play
some audio from CNN the other day. They are talking
about the undocumented immigrant issues or you know, illegal people
who are here in this country, whatever word you want
to choose, if you're going to try to be woke
or not about this, and how many Americans agree with

(23:20):
Trump now that if you're here illegally, you probably shouldn't
be allowed to stay to port.

Speaker 15 (23:25):
All undocumented immigrants, voters favoring the government trying to deport
all eleven million of them. Back in twenty sixteen, just
thirty eight percent of voters wanted the government to try
to deport all eleven million undocumented immigrants.

Speaker 5 (23:40):
Compared to where we are in.

Speaker 15 (23:41):
Twenty twenty five, fifty six percent majority. The American people
have come a long way on this issue, much closeer
to Donald Trump. And I think that's a big part
of the reason why Americans are increasingly saying the country
is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy,
and why Donald Trump's not approval rating on that issue
is in the positive.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Why do you think that happened, by the way, because
I can give you the reason I believe that this happened.
The reason that so many more people are in favor
of removing everyone who's here illegally is because it hit
their own community. It's because they got firsthand information and knowledge.
I can play a piece of audio after piece of
audio of people on the South Side of Chicago very

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upset with their politicians because of how much people who
were there illegally had harmed the ability for people that
were there legally to actually get you know, government assistants,
that all of a sudden, people were living in parks
and you know, getting free housing and all kinds of things,
and people in certain communities on the South Side of
Chicago where I rate about this and going after Democratic

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politicians for these policies something in the past maybe they
didn't talk about because it wasn't on their doorstep. And
the whole point of this rant or whatever you want
to call it, is that information helps us understand topics better.
And information is the one thing that so many places
seem like they don't want to give out. And there's
one other way I'll say this, and again I'll promise

(25:04):
I'll move on after this. So many times in my
own career in media, I've been in a room with
someone or a group of people where a discussion happens,
and this could be news you know, individuals or others,
not here, not at the places I work now, but
in my past career, where someone says, oh, I don't
know if we can give that information out on air,

(25:25):
if we can give that information out live. Not because
it's untrue. We know that it's true, but we're worried
how people will take it. We're worried what people will
think if this information is shared with the public. And
you look at yourself and you think to yourself.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Uh huh, like that.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's usually the first reaction I have when someone tells
me that the reason we can't tell the truth in
media is because we're worried about what will happen if
the truth is actually shared with the public. And you're
thinking to yourself, like, who do you think you're protecting?
Who do you think you're helping in this situation. Well,
the people that we're helping are those who would be
you know, unfit, barely accused of being in the same

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bubble as people that are actually doing something wrong.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Or this information is true about them. We don't want
that to.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Happen, and that I think is what is going on
right now. In the case of the MS thirteen guy,
who multiple courts actually upheld the likelihood that he was
connected to that gang. It happened multiple times in twenty nineteen,
as I discussed earlier in the show. But yet people
are calling for him to be returned to this country
because he was deported when he shouldn't have been and

(26:30):
now is in a prison in El Salvador. And that
discussion is much more about what we think the good
guy and the bad guy are than all the facts
of the case, and a lot of the facts are
just left out there because oh, it might be bad
or it might cause you to think that somebody else
who's here illegally is also a gang member, which is insane,
by the way, as a next step in any sort

(26:51):
of discussion. No, not everyone who's here illegally is connected
to MS thirteen. No Americans that I know actually believe
that that every individual who came into this country illegally
is tied to, you know, that group. And more importantly
than that, even if that were true, which is not,
none of that should make us afraid to tell the
actual truth in the world of media, which so many

(27:11):
people are so often afraid to do. Is like, well,
who knows what radical individual this will support? And we
can't possibly do that, so we're just gonna have to
leave that part out, all right. That was a long
rant on a good Friday about things that exist in
the news and things that are you know, talked about
half heartedly or intentionally inaccurately. I will take a break,

(27:32):
and after the break, I will talk to you about
a abomination of a food creation just in time for
the holidays that involves hot dogs and an Easter product
you probably don't want to have with your hot dog.
That coming up next. Craig Collins filling in on the
Chad Benson Show.

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Serving up talk radio medium, rare and dripping with irony.
It's Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (29:07):

Speaker 3 (29:09):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in Thrilled to be
with you, A bunch of stuff to talk about. Peeps
is the second most popular candy for Easter, the first
being the Cadbury Egg. Peeps also now at least for
one radio host, being used as a way to eat
a hot dog. I will play a little bit of
audio of this. It's a radio stunt. I think this

(29:29):
is out of the Massachusetts maybe Boston area.

Speaker 12 (29:32):
Here we go, my friend's down here, Lexi's road dogs.

Speaker 16 (29:35):
We started off.

Speaker 12 (29:36):
As a joke. We're talking about a hot dog and
a peek bun. It's a hot dog when instead of
a regular bun, it's peeps, and we're gonna we're gonna
try it for the first time here, Ok, not gonna lie.
This is really really good.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
No it's not.

Speaker 12 (29:51):
No, you're not hot dog in peeps.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Now.

Speaker 12 (29:53):
I'm gonna give that a nine point one out of ten.
That's how good it was.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
That's insane as a rating.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
This guy went viral for recommending that other people try
the hot dog and the peep move. Why do we
have to make two things that are great on their
own try to make them great together.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
We don't need to merge these two products.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
If you enjoy the peep whether you enjoy it fresh
out of the box or if you leave it out
to get stale for a day or two like some
of us do.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
That's totally fine with me.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
And also hot dogs, especially with baseball being a thing
that happens again. Totally fine, but no need to enjoy
both these things at the same time. You can have
them right after each other and be just as happy.
But darn it, that's the world we live in, man.
We want to overdue joy to a degree that we're
putting peeps with hot dogs. Another story out there that
I thought was interesting. A woman went viral because she

(30:41):
went to social media to talk about how she got
I don't know how to say this any different thrown
up on a plane. She said that it was a
projectile vomit situation.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
I have audio that I will play.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Here's what amuses me most about this person. Her name
is Noela. By the way, she chose to share this embarrassing,
not fun moment of her life all over social media
because so many young people do this. Now, something terrible
happens to you, your immediate reaction is I need to
let the whole world know, especially if this goes viral,

(31:13):
that this thing happened to me, so that you know
they can share in my pain or laugh at me,
or whatever they're going to do. There used to be
a time where when embarrassing stuff happened to you, you
didn't tell anybody about it. You fell over, you got
back up. No one was the wiser. We don't live
in that time anymore.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
A girl next to.

Speaker 17 (31:30):
Me and myself just got projectile, vomited on on adulta flight,
on a long flight at all. But it was a
little bit bumpy because of some rainy weather. We were
literally minutes away from landing. It smelled like someone had
burnt and it smelled like Beard and I have my
headphones in. I was listening to music really loudly, so
like I did not hear this man vomit. The girl
sitting next to me tops on my arm and I
look at her. She points at me, and I realized

(31:53):
I have this man's vomit all over my left side.
It was on my jacket, it was on my shirt.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
It was, yeah, that's not good.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
By the way, I don't know how you're listening to
music so loud that not only do you not hear
someone vomit, but you don't feel it when it hits
you as it's flying behind them as the plane is landing.
By the way, at first, Delta simply offered a bunch
of napkins and some bonus miles as an apology for
someone getting thrown up on on their flight. Because this
has gone viral, people now believe that Delta will offer

(32:22):
more because I'd want more than just some free miles
and some you know, courtesy napkins to help remove this
horrible thing that is now all over my body. But again,
I think the biggest takeaway to me is how we
need to share this stuff online after it happens to us,
and not just let it be something that happened and
no one knows about and we never share with anyone

(32:42):
and we take it to our grave that world does
not exist. Another set of stories that I thought were
kind of interesting to throw out there. One Sunday. Easter
Sunday is also for twenty Day. Some people have been
talking about this on social media for twenty days a
day where people are encouraged if it's legal to partake

(33:04):
in recreational marijuana, recreational cannabis. I'm not telling you to
do that. That's not a recommendation of this show, but
it is a thing that's out there. There's also a
survey that said a majority of adults, I think it's
something like sixty percent of adults would like to do
an Easter egg hunt. Even the fifty seven percent, even
though they're adults, they missed that from their childhood. So

(33:26):
I thought, two birds with one stone, Just like when
you're trying to merge the peep in the hot dog,
let's let the people who are having fun for four
to twenty day be the ones who go hunt for
the adult Easter eggs, because that hunt's never going to end. Man,
those people are going to be in a park for
twenty four solid hours doing very little hunting, a whole
lot of giggling probably and maybe some peep snacking, but

(33:47):
they're not going to find anything. So I think that
that might be the most amusing way to bring these
two worlds together and see what happens. I also do
feel as though be fifty seven percent of adults who
said they want to go Easter egg hunting even though
they're no longer children, might be a significant portion of
them are people who also want to celebrate four twenty.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
I'm just guessing. I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Sixty two percent of adults said they would like their
own Easter basket on the holiday given to them, even
if they give one to kids.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
They kind of like a return basket.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
The most common Easter basket item is chocolate bunnies and
Cadbury eggs. How do you eat your chocolate bunny was
another question that we had to ask people just in
time for the holiday. Seventy seven percent of people start
with the ears, sixteen percent go for the feet, and
for some reason, six percent start with the butt.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
That is exactly how it's phrasier.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
I don't know who those six percent are, but you
are animals and you need to be stopped now, I'm kidding. Finally,
one last thing as far as Easter facts go, if
anyone really does try dying potatoes to save money, a
few different outlets are warning you not to eat the
potato after you've died it. Unlike an egg, you can't

(35:01):
easily peel all the paint off of the potato to
then consume it. I don't know why this story needed
to be out there and in the news, but it is.
If you're going ahead and painting potatoes instead of eggs
because of the price of eggs, I do not eat them,
and I will just say quickly that I have family
members who eat the eggs. I watch them boil them,
peel them. That seems safe. So even if you're worried

(35:23):
about that being bad. That seems totally fine. The people
I know are healthy and doing great. But at the
potato world, more things get absorbed, so more things you
need to be safe about. That is a PSA for
the day. Craig Collins, filling in on The Chad Benson Show.
Although I guess if I really wanted to throw out
a real PSA to you, it might be to you know,

(35:44):
skip the dying of any kind of stuff this holiday
season and just consume the food.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
I'll just go ahead and.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Go that road about it, or you know, go with
the plastic egg instead of the traditional real egg. Although
I did like painting them when I was a little kid,
So I guess I'm now, you know, backing off on
my own PSA. So I'm not really sure what statement
I've made to you just now, but Darted, it's time
for commercials. I don't have to worry about it till
we come back for the next break, and I'll figure
out what side of the painting and egg story I'm on,

(36:10):
because it might be both quick break a lot more.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Craig Collins, filling in on The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. Carmelo Anthony, not the
basketball player, the teenager that is accused of killing someone
at a track meet because Austin Metcalf and him got
into an argument of some kind and Carmelo Anthony had

(37:11):
a knife. He stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart and
Austin died in the hands of his twin brother and
his father. This is a horrific story that you've probably
heard about at this point. Anyway, Austin or excuse me,
Carmelo Anthony's team family supporters held a press conference yesterday.
Jeff Metcalf, that would be Austin's father, showed up and

(37:34):
apparently this made a whole lot of people on the
Anthony side of this horrific story very upset. I'm going
to play part of this audio. It makes me very mad.
I'll tell you why in just a second. But this
is one of the political slash whoever leaders, community leaders,
who's supporting a Carmelo Anthony, someone that I don't believe

(37:57):
is actually denying that he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf
with a knife. I think the only claim being made
is that it was in self defense, which makes no
sense because Austin Metcalf had no deadly weapon and was
not trying to kill Carmelo Anthony by any reporting that
I've seen on this story whatsoever. But nonetheless, they'll get
their day in court, they'll make the arguments. I will

(38:19):
see what the jury decides. Here is a reaction to
the victim's father showing up at this press conference again
by the people supporting Carmelo Anthony, and this is disgusting.

Speaker 18 (38:32):
And all I'm going to say so it don't be
asked later, is that was disrespectful and just shows you
all the character.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Who was not invited.

Speaker 18 (38:50):
He knows that is inappropriate to be near this family,
but he did it. And so I say to people,
actually speak louder than worked.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
This is insane.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
This is insane on so many levels that you would
say that about the individual whose son is dead. By
the way, Jeff Metcalf has called for forgiveness for the
person who killed his son. He actually in a TV
interview just shortly after the horrific thing happened. When told
that there was someone who was in custody, said that

(39:24):
he had already forgiven that person because of his faith.
So they are now trying to demonize they being the
supporters of Carmelo Anthony, the individual who called for forgiveness
while still wanting the court system to punish the person responsible, etc.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Etc.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
But said that because of his faith. And this is
something that actually got him a lot of criticism a
lot of places. And I'll play some of this audio,
but this is the individual, someone who publicly said out
loud that forgiveness should be provided, apparently as a terrible
person for showing up and then willingly leaving without incident
a press conference he was not invited to.

Speaker 19 (40:00):
He really hasn't hit me. And I don't believe any
parents should ever have to bury a little child. And
I pray that, you know, maybe there's changes made as
far as security or things like that, and maybe we
can learn from this and try to turn a tragedy
into something positive to make sure it doesn't happen to
anyone else's child. I don't want parents to feel like

(40:21):
I feel today. So I've already forgiven the person who's
stabbed him, God's going to take care of everything. God's
taking care of my son.

Speaker 20 (40:30):
I kissed him.

Speaker 19 (40:31):
When I kissed him goodbye for the last time, I'll
tell him it's not goodbye, Cillulater.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
So that's the individual. And again he actually was criticized
in social media. I don't think that the tragedy would
have been something he could have potentially processed by the
time that cameras were in his faces and microphones were
in his faces. But he said through faith he wanted
to forgive the person who killed his child again, something
that not many parents would even say or feel at

(41:01):
any point dealing with a tragedy like that. And then
this person gets accused of being a terrible person for
showing up and then willingly leaving a press conference. There
wasn't that long ago a time in our society where
the perpetrators or the alleged perpetrators of a crime would
actually apologize and feel as though there's nothing they could

(41:23):
do to make it better. But at least they deserve,
you know, to look someone in the eyes and say
that they are so sorry for the pain that's been
caused to the victim, to the victim's family, that you
act with kindness and empathy. If you're the family members
of someone who took the life of someone else, you
act that way. But for some reason in our society,
because there have to be good guys and bad guys,

(41:45):
and you know, victims of anything, not just actual victims
of harm, but victims of some other societal thing, that
we have these issues where people actually can claim that
the actions that the father took that day are somehow
obviously bad. It's insane. This is insane to me, so
much so that I have other examples of insanity. This

(42:08):
is a mother who was yesterday given an opportunity to
speak during a press conference at the White House about
the craziness involving the media obsession with a potential MS
thirteen gang member who is deported out of our country
legally deported in a way he came in illegally, by

(42:29):
the way, but deported in a way where the Trump
administration has admitted they shouldn't have done it. But now
they can't get him back because El Salvador is not
going to let him out of jail. This mother lost
her child to someone in the same state, and the
Senator who's all over the news for caring so much
about Kilmar Obrego Garcia being brought back to the country,

(42:51):
said almost nothing about this other tragedy. Here's a little
bit of what this mom said into a microphone yesterday.

Speaker 7 (42:56):
To have a senator from Maryland who didn't even acknowledge
or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that
she endured, leaving her five children without a mother and
now a grand baby without a grandmother, so that he

(43:18):
can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador
to bring back someone that's not even an American citizen.
Why does that person have more right than I do.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
It's because of who they think the bad guy is
in the story about the bad guy as far as
someone being deported from this country who shouldn't have been,
although likely is tied to MS thirteen by a lot
of information that's come out since, and so I doubt
a lot of Americans would actually like to see him returned.
The narrative that the bad guy is Trump or the
Trump administration is too powerful for me to ignore. But

(43:55):
if you're Rachel Morin's mother, the person talking right there
about her brutal killing in the same state, the bad
guy is the person who committed the horrible crime. There's
no political angle to it other than to say someone
shouldn't have been here illegally, So most media and Democrats
simply ignore it. They ignore the stories, they ignore the
details that they don't like. This is the reason that

(44:18):
approval rating for a lot of politicians is so in
the gutter, because a rational person simply thinking about these
stories knows what the right answer should be, knows that
this woman's tragedy should deserve more attention and more discussion
than a person who's now in jail in Al Salvador.
But they just can't do it. They being media, they

(44:39):
just cannot ignore the things where the narrative eventually makes
Trump or the Trump administration or some conservative the potential
bad guy, and that takes precedence as far as discussion goes.
The other version of this just shifting gears is after
the tragedy in Florida yesterday, you shooting on a college

(45:00):
campus and where lives a couple lives were lost and
a handgun was used by a nineteen year old that
actually stole it from his mother. The conversation about gun
control is exactly where everyone had to go. And President
Trump said that it's not the gun that commits the crime,
it is the individual. What I think is so interesting

(45:22):
about this, and I'll just say this quickly before we
get to a break here in the next few minutes,
and I don't mean to re talk issues that get
talked all the time in political circles and non political
radio and whatnot. But what's insane to me is that
the media obsession with the gun debate allows media to
just forget the people who commit these crimes. It allows them,

(45:46):
or at least they think it allows them. The American people,
I guess, decide if it actually does allow them to
do this, but they just move on to focusing on
the gun and don't actually talk about the person anymore
and why they would commit the crime. What the things
we could do in society would be to prevent people
from becoming this evil wanting to do this harm in
the first place. All of that is secondary to whether

(46:07):
or not gun control might help. And by the way,
in this own unique case, since it's a handgun that
was taken, there's no scenario where any sort of legislation
that's ever been discussed would actually have had an impact
on what happened.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
The other day. But media doesn't care.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
They simply want to ask the questions that are the
predictable reaction to these stories and leave the details on
the sideline. I'll go ahead and play a little bit
of this audio of Trump answering President Trump answering this
question the other day about you know, whether gun control
is the answer, and him saying no, fairly, frankly, are
now to.

Speaker 9 (46:41):
Decease following that shooting at Florida State University going in
the mid that is, there are any changes that you
want to see to gun legislation, anything you see broken
with gun lawsn't art.

Speaker 11 (46:51):
Well, I'm going to have to look. I'm a big
advocate of the Second Amendment. I have been from the beginning.
I protected it, and these things are terrible. But the
gun doesn't do the shooting. The people do. It's you know,
a phrase, it's used probably too often.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
And here I'll stop it now.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Media has had the predictable reaction, at least most media
to vilify Trump for even saying that, how dare you
say that it's not the gun that does the shooting,
it's the people that do the shooting, which is a
very simple and true statement that it is not the
gun that fires itself, it's someone that chooses to use it.
And the extension of that discussion is that if they

(47:29):
didn't use a gun, people who are intent to do
harm would find another way to do harm. And actually,
I've said this before on radio, and I'm just going
to throw it out there again. There was a time
period in this country not that long ago, the late
nineties the early two thousands, where there was a restriction
on guns that people believe to be the catalysts to

(47:49):
you know, mass shootings, the you know, assault weapon ban,
and it did not impact any of the harm that
happened in our society where mass casualties occurred. In fact,
many people old enough to remember this, which should be
most of us listening to the show, I know that
bombs were a much bigger threat, or at least felt
like a much bigger threat homemade explosive devices during the

(48:11):
late nineties and early two thousands, and they are now
because people who are deranged, who are evil, who are insane,
who are whatever you want to call them, I will
figure out a way to do harm.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
They'll use vehicles, they'll use all kinds of things.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
And so that deserves to be the actual discussion, if
you're looking for a way to actually solve a problem
and not just looking for a way to pivot to
a political discussion. And I don't support the Second Amendment
or gun rights because I'm on a certain side of
a political aisle. I don't do that with any of
the things that I choose to support or not support,
and you shouldn't either. It doesn't matter what side of

(48:47):
politics you're on. It matters how critically you can think
about the topic and what you believe the outcome would
be that would actually prevent the problem. And if you
honestly think that gun legislation prevents this from happening, that
you know, bad guys would decide, well, if the gun's illegal,
I can't use it, even if you have access to it,
which most people would in the United States, Even if

(49:09):
legislation was passed to say that those guns are not allowed,
they would still be accessible here in the country in
a variety of ways. So even then, as we know,
and as many people who talk about this know, it
wouldn't actually fix the problem. No one cares about that part,
which is again a sort of surreal to think that
that's where we're at in society. You want to win

(49:30):
an argument more than want to help people be safe
in the world. Quick break a lot more. Craig Conin's
filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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filling in, thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff
out there to discuss. A man in Scotland found a
lego brick inside his ear that had likely been there
for twenty years.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
It's a real story.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
A dad not only stepped on legos probably a whole
bunch of times when his kids were little, but somehow
at some point got one lodged inside his head and
then didn't know about it for way too long.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
This is crazy. The guy's okay, he's fine.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
The eventual ear pain and things that he'd been having
for some time in his life caused him to go
to the doctor. He's probably the kind of guy who
does not go to the doctor very often. I imagine
his ear actually even ruptured before he went in in
the unbearable pain that he felt and found that there
was a lego that had been in there.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
For twenty years. I don't know how they determined that too.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
How you carbon data, lego or whatever the move might
be once you pluck it out of somebody's head. But
this is something that hasn't been in his house for
a while, so that was one of the clues. He
was twenty four at the time that the lego got
lodged into his ear, and now in his forties. Eventually
the body gave in and even the lego could no
longer be kept inside the ear. Not something you get

(52:06):
told as we age that the legos lodged inside your
body are going to get more uncomfortable and more difficult
for you to ignore, but one of the other terrible
byproducts of getting older. All right, That is just a
little bit of what's going on in the world. Quite
a bit more coming up. This is Craig Collins filling
in on the Chad Benson Show on the holiday and

(52:27):
Chad will be back on Tuesday, so I have a
couple more show one more show with you after the weekend,
and I will probably either today or maybe on Monday,
talk more about some of the crazy things that we
have as far as Easter stats go. One of my
favorite ones though, is the food products that are wildly
both good and bad. This is a recent survey that

(52:50):
people came up with something that people say you can
have a great version of it or a terrible version,
or some people love it, other people hate it. And
Peeps made this list. Holiday candy Peeps is on a
list of items that people think are either delicious or terrible.
Other items that made this list that are not holiday
specific include dunkin Donuts, coffee, macaroni and cheese, chicken breast, nachos,

(53:14):
and the number one thing on the list was watermelon.
People say that depending on how much actual you know
flavor it has or how much water feels to be
in at the juiciness of it can change the quality
profoundly for you this holiday season or in general when
having watermelon.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
I find a lot of the things on this list
very funny.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Some of the things that are always a safe bet
to be delicious include pizza and also cadberry eggs, which
are always delicious and you're wrong if you think they're terrible.
I don't know what human actually believes those sort of things,
because they're amazing. But all right, that's some of the stuff.
We might get to more of that in a little bit,
as I said, and I have some other holiday specific
stuff to get to, including just how many people are

(53:55):
becoming religious. The number might surprise you, especially for young
people that more come up. Craig Collins filling in on
the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:36):

Speaker 3 (54:40):
stuff out there to discuss. You all know about it.
The trip into space by some famous people, some women
that probably didn't need to go to space, and then
the resulting backlash, complaints, and then the anger about the blames.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
We all know about this story.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
What you might not be aware of is that Wendy's
is embroiled in this controversy now, so much so that
I think yesterday multiple news outlets contacted Wendy's to ask
if they were going to take back the tweets that
they put out so to catch you up on this
part of the story.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
They were critical of Katy Perry.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Specifically, one of the tweets from Wendy's back on the
fourteenth said can we send her back now?

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Which is hilarious to me.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
They then said I kissed the ground and I liked it,
which is a picture of Katy Perry kissing the ground
after she was launched into space and then returned. And
then finally, when we said women in stem, this isn't
what we meant was the third joke made. Many people
are up in arms about this. I don't know if
they're real people or just news media people, but a
spokesperson for one of these organizations said that, you know,

(55:51):
it's irresponsible for a large brand to get in on
making fun of people. I'm paraphrasing what they said. It's
not harmless band, it's a billion dollar brand using its
platform to publicly demean a woman. When billion dollar brands
join in, it's irresponsible, was what they said. Here's what
I find amazing if there was criticism, and there was,

(56:12):
and there is of other groups that travel into space
without any need to be there, whether it's Richard Branson
or anyone whoever goes. Media often allows for the discussion
to be that, hey, this is a you know, rich
person or a famous person, or someone wasting money and
going to space and doing things they don't need to

(56:34):
do that benefits none of us. But when a group
of ladies do it, who are also famous and don't
need to go to space. Now it's sexism. Now, it's terrible.
Now you're not allowed to say that, because how dare you, sir?
It's the weirdest, you know, double standard that I've seen
in society that's existed for quite some time, and I

(56:54):
can't help it, but I want to equate it to
something else. And this is going to be out of
left field, and I know I don't care. So there's
a debate going on about the Jim bikini. And if
you're not sure what this is, and I've talked about
it a little bit already, the Jim bikini is a
just sports bra and very short shorts that women wear

(57:15):
to the gym. Some guy who owns a gym somewhere
in the world complained about this on a podcast. The
podcast went viral, and women all over the country started
showing up at Jim's in quote Jim bikinis to take
pictures of himself fighting the good fight, standing up for
their ability to wear whatever they want to wear when
they go to the gym. And how dare you a

(57:36):
man look at them or try to, you know, pay
any attention to someone who's wearing almost no clothing and
working out of the gym hilarious statement and of itself.
But you know what I love about these stories is
they necessitate the desire, or they necessitate within them a
specific villain to exist. And the villain is men in

(57:58):
both of these cases, men who are obviously so sexist
that they can't help but make fun of women going
to space. When these same individuals, and some of them
might be women, also made fun of men when they
went into space.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
That doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
But then also with the gym one, you can't possibly
be at all critical of someone going to the gym
wearing almost no clothing and taking pictures of themselves on
social media because they want attention, because how.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Dare you say that out loud? I just think it's interesting.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
I know that Rush Limbaugh and many other people within
the space of conservative radio or whatever conservative media have
talked about this before, a need to create a division
in society, you know, men against women, white against black,
whatever it might be, whatever the case might be. But
it's interesting to see these things play out in this

(58:47):
time in our society.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
We're entitled.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Individuals feel like they're at an all time high, especially
among younger people. They feel as though they can demand
anything from society, and any you know, mistake they make
is allowed to be immediately ignored and forgiven.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
It's just sort of amazing.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
But one more time, just to state it, I find
it so funny that people are now upset with Wendy's
for making fun of Katy Perry, when very likely a
whole bunch of companies made fun of Bezos, made fun
of Branson, made fun of all these other rich individuals
who fired themselves up into space and then returned and
benefited no one in the process. They did nothing really good.

(59:25):
All right, I'm gonna shift gears. I find this to
be pretty funny. Just random audio that's out there too.
This is a dude in England who was accused of
a hate crime on the streets because someone claimed that
he said speak English.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
I just want to repeat that someone in England.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Was accused of saying speak English to someone else in England,
and apparently that would be a hate crime if he
said it. But here's the thing. The guy didn't even
say that. He didn't ask someone in England to speak English.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Here we go.

Speaker 21 (59:58):
It would be many honey first, but apparently doing some
conversations between yourself. You have alleged and we weren't here,
so I don't know you've said it, but you've alleged
to say, speak English.

Speaker 10 (01:00:11):
Clearly, Speak clearly.

Speaker 21 (01:00:17):
Yeah, and that's fine, and that's why we've just come
to speak because potentially someone could perceive that as a
hate crime.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Come on, this didn't happen, is what people are saying.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
And you can hear his wife, who's actually recording the
interaction between police and her husband, say that the guy
is partially deaf, so when people came up to talk
to him, he said speak clearly because he couldn't understand them,
and the person perceived him to say speak English and
then reported it to the police. And had he actually
said that, apparently that would be a crime and he

(01:00:53):
could be in trouble in England.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
That's also insane.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
You know what's crazy about this or or any of
these discuss essians, in all honesty, it's the need to
put my thoughts into your brain. It's the need to
make me tell you what to think. And if you
don't think the right thing, you have to be somehow
in trouble for it. You have to be held responsible,
you have to be punished in some way, shape or form,
because how dare you, sir, publicly disagree with me. Here's

(01:01:19):
what I would have done if someone in my life,
and I'm fluent in English, had asked me to speak
English in public, I would have laughed at them, even
if I was speaking a different language, which I don't
know how to speak any other languages. But let's say
I even went to a foreign country and someone demanded
I speak their language while I'm there talking to people
that didn't understand English. I also wouldn't care, like I

(01:01:40):
can't do that, my bad, and then I would just
walk away. None of it would cause me to be
so mad that I need someone to be punished for
something that has no impact on my life.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
That's the other part that I think really matters.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Is the ease of just walking away from a dude
who you think is rude to you in public and
not trying to get them in some sort of legal
jeopardy or legal problem.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
That part's insane and I can't get over this.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
I think this is the kind of audio that I'd
love to play again and again, hopefully for years to come,
because eventually I think this will be the lesson that
we learned and not necessarily, you know the example of
something terrible that's currently going on in society. But this
does no good, and actually, you know, I'll go one
step further. I wasn't sure I was even going to
tell this story on the air, but I'm going to

(01:02:27):
tell it. I was recently in a situation, not in radio,
but in a different part of my professional life, or
someone had an issue with me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
I was told about it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
I was like, there's an issue about this thing going on,
and the person who told me even thought that it
was race related. I'm a white guy. The person who
had an issue with me is not a man and
not white.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
I don't want to go any further than that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
And the end result of the discussion I was told
is that someone actually said like they were afraid of me, like, oh,
we think that he's a guy who could be mean,
and there was no reason to think that a nothing
I've done. I know many people that listen to the
radio probably don't know me beyond whatever my voice sounds like.
But this is important for me to tell this story.

(01:03:10):
And it's a personal experience, so it's anecdotal, but it matters.
When I asked for clarification, as to why someone would
be afraid of me. Without even talking to the person
directly about this part, what I got back is that
they're kind of afraid of white guys, Like it had
nothing to do with me. It was like, well, you know,
they believe in the society we live in now that

(01:03:31):
white people can sometimes be mean, especially white men, and
so for that reason, that was an okay thing to articulate.
And I could have been, you know, in trouble had
I not been the type of person I am who's
not really a physical threat and doesn't behave like one
to people. And I just thought that was amazing because
for just a second, and just in this one example

(01:03:52):
in my own personal life, I would love to play
that devil's advocate of if I had said something as
a white dude about someone who didn't look like me,
someone who wasn't the same sex as me or the
same race as me, and then when they asked me
why I thought that I might be in danger or
why I thought this was a problem, or that if
I said because of race or sex or.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Any of that, what would have happened to me next?

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
Our society is so okay with the idea of vilifying
certain individuals and no one else for just your race
or your sex. And I find that fascinating and also terrible.
But this is something again that recently happened to me
that immediately reminded me of some of these stories you
see in the news all the time. Luckily, the end

(01:04:35):
result of it was that the you know, solution was
I'm not a dangerous person. I'm not going to hurt
anybody just because of my race or any of that
other stuff, so it's not going to be an issue.
But nonetheless, and again, it sort of just boggles my
mind right now, if I wanted to try out some
comedy in a state, on a stage somewhere, or you know,

(01:04:56):
anything else in society, maybe not comedy is the best example,
and I go after white dudes, perfectly acceptable, perfectly acceptable,
to do it on television, perfectly acceptable. And I'm not
complaining in the woeies me a version of this discussion.
I just think it's interesting because if it were any
other targets other than white guys, the answer in society

(01:05:17):
is how dare you?

Speaker 22 (01:05:18):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
You're a horrible, terrible person.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
But yet that rule isn't applied equally across all spectrums,
and I just don't know why. It just makes no
sense to anybody who's out there saying these things are
acting this way. But the dude in England again, to
go back to it, the white guy who was accused
of saying speak English when he actually said speak clearly
because he's partially deaf, and that goes viral all over

(01:05:42):
the internet because he was almost arrested for it. A
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filling in, Thrilled to be with you. Red Robin is
in a controversy. Apparently the restaurant chain offered a bottomless
burger pass yesterday, I believe on their website The twenty
dollars Bottomless Burger Pass would give cardholders a burger with
a bottomless side every day for a month, all month

(01:07:46):
of May, to celebrate National Burger Month. Apparently, the black
and gold card that was highly popular crashed the site
almost immediately. Many people who went to try to get
this site complained on social media played pages like Reddit
that it was harder to get a Red Robin bottomless
Burger Pass than a ticket to a Taylor Swift concert

(01:08:07):
because of how many people wanted this and how high
demand on the product was. You don't even get bottomless burgers.
That's what makes me very much question the name of
the pass. If I was buying something that was a
bottomless burger pass, I would assume I get as many
burgers as I want.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
That's not true.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
You just get bottomless sides, which feels like it's not
worth the twenty bucks. Although people are hard up and
you know, groceries cost a bunch of money, so maybe there's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
A reason why.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
But apparently several people all over the Internet thought that
it was important to let Red Robin know that they
were not capable of getting their burger pass, and they're.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Upset about it. How dare you, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
I think anything right now, any sort of you know,
you pay one fee and then you get as many
as you can handle, is going to sell out immediately
again because of the amount of people who are struggling
in other ways. I did not go for the Red
Robin Burger Pass, and I immediately regret it. Apparently was
very worthwhile speaking about concerts real quick, I mentioned ticket
prices a second ago. There are kind of two stories

(01:09:07):
in the news in the world of concerts that I
find hilarious. The first one is Fry Festival two. I
know Chad talked about this a little the other day,
but the fact that it was indefinitely postponed and they're
looking for a new venue or a new date and
they have none of that, and people are asking for refunds,
which originally Billy McFarlane said he wasn't going to give,

(01:09:29):
but now it seems like he might be giving it
because they've called off their Mexico plans and everything else.
What's hilarious to me is that you saw this movie
once before. The first Fry Festival did not go well.
Things did not go as expected. People definitely got screwed
out of a bunch of money. So I don't know
why anyone would buy tickets to Fry Festival two.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
And I feel like the old.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame
on me thing applies. I say, no refund. If you
bought tickets to Fry Festival two and the thing doesn't
happen and you don't get to go to a concert,
that's your fault because you made the mistake of trusting
this guy again and you shouldn't have done it, and
you know you shouldn't have done it, so that money
should just be gone forever. The other thing in the

(01:10:13):
world of tickets and money that I find funny for
whatever reason, is a Beyonce story that's out there. Beyonce
is going on her Cowboy Carter tour, where she's going
to be playing songs from her country album that one
Album of the Year at the Grammys, and apparently she's
struggling to sell tickets to the show, so much so

(01:10:34):
that people that bought pre sale tickets for inflated prices
are now irate that prices for tickets much closer. They
have nosebleed seats that they paid thousands of dollars for
are now less money than what they paid in pre
sale pricing, which teaches you a certain lesson. Never go
to ticket Master or any of those sites for a

(01:10:55):
pre sale of any sort of concert where they're going
to use dynamic pricing to increase price of something, because
it might be cheaper to just wait when they're going
to charge the price they're charging. But a lot of
upset Beyonce fans that are actually going to this concert
say they wish they had bought a much closer ticket
for a much lower price by simply waiting and finding

(01:11:17):
out that there are thousands of tickets still on sale
in many of these venues that Beyonce is not selling out.
And I guess the only other reason that I find
that funny is that when you have a musician that
changes music genres, there are going to be challenges sometimes
in getting the arena to sell out for that concert.
And I guess it's not totally shocking to me that

(01:11:38):
the Country Carter Tour, the Cowboy Carter Tour is not
as popular as a typical Beyonce concert is with Beyonce
music fans, that it's not the same individuals that are
demanding the tickets, and that's why they're still available. Maybe
she should stay out loud that she's going to play
some old hits too, and then she'll probably sell those

(01:11:58):
tickets and seconds to all the people who are avoiding
buying a ticket that would have bought it if it
wasn't a country tour. But that is the Beyonce news
that I decided to share today because why not.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
Darn it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
This is Craig Collins filling in without a fry festival
ticket on The Chad Benson Show, and so proud of
the fact that I don't go to festivals at all anymore.
Actually I did go to one. See this is immediately
contradicted myself, but I did go to one for free
as a press person. This was about a year ago,
and I regretted even going in that scenario and trying

(01:12:30):
to cover air quotes the press around a music festival,
because there's no news worthiness to being at one of
those things and interviewing people at one of those things who.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Probably don't remember I talked to them.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
Quick break a lot more Creig Collins filling in on

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
stuff to talk about. Let's do some rapid fire news
headlines that are out there first. Marco Rubio says that
the Trump administration may soon move on from a Ukraine
Russian peace effort if the sides are not willing to
negotiate the way the United States wants them to. It's

(01:13:50):
not our war, is something that Marco Rubio said recently
to the News. This does simply make sense whether the
appetite is not on the Ukrainian inside, of the Russian side,
or both sides. It's sort of irrelevant. The US can't
force people to negotiate a terms of a ceasefire or
peace agreement if we're not actually involved in the conflict.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
The only thing we can do, I'll.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Say this again, I've said this before, is threatened Ukraine
to not support them in their endless war fight with Russia. Yes,
Russia invaded Ukraine, Yes they provoke them. Yes, I think
that sending some sort of weapons and ability to help
Ukraine defend itself all made sense. Not blank checks for
all the other stuff we sent them.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
But I digress.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
I just settle that in case someone wants to attack
any of the points I'm about to make. The only
way to move forward now is to find what we
believe a peace agreement to be. And if Ukraine says no,
threatened to cut back our support of them, which is
something we've already done. So that's the only way the
United States could trigger any additional, you know, peace talks
is by threatening to stop supporting Ukraine. And they can't

(01:14:56):
fight that war without us, without our money and our
blank checks and our equipment.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
So that's where we are now.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
But Rubio saying that we might move away from a
deal is certainly important as far as news goes. Chris
van Holland, the Senator out of Maryland who desperately wanted
to sit down with Ambrego Garcia, kill mar and Brego Garcia,
did happen late last night. It's a weird thing because

(01:15:23):
everyone paying attention to this story knew that the senator
had no way to actually quote unquote fix the problem
that I don't know if all Americans agree, actually is
a problem that someone who's a MS thirteen gang member.
According to several different judges. Is not going to be
allowed to return to our country even if he was
quote wrongfully deported. I do have some audio This is

(01:15:45):
Morning Joe. They had on Tom Holman to talk about
this issue. The Borders are gave a very thorough answer
to the question was this a mistake? Should this not
have happened? Is this the kind of thing that should
not happen again? Holman thinks that it wasn't a mistake,
and he has several receipts to back up his position.

Speaker 16 (01:16:05):
Look, I don't I don't agree with the term that
was mistake. I mean, I know that was that was
put out in the beginning. But looking at this case,
there's a couple of things in play here. First of all,
is mistake because they said he had withholding, withholding or removal,
well holding. The facts wrong that withholding have changed over
the years. For instance, when that when that decision has
made them with holding, he wasn't classified as a as

(01:16:27):
a terrorist, which is now. And plus the conditions that
withholding was a danger of a specific gang in Al Salvador.
That gang don't exist anymore in Ol Salvador. Matter of fact,
Ol Salvador is one of the safest nations in the
region now because the actions of President Bukayley, So the
facts around in that decision have changed, and we believe

(01:16:48):
that the withholding order is set aside now that he's
a terrorist, because it doesn't it doesn't pertain to those
designates terrorists. He is member of MS thirteen. Two federal
judges have decided that we have a police department who
documented that ICE Intelligence has documented that, that documented that
Thel salvadoran Gumman says, the MS thirteen gang member who

(01:17:09):
has since been designated as a terrorist. So the entire
condition around that decays have changed. The facts have changed,
so we don't think that withholding isn't playing anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
We don't think it makes any sense whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
And we don't understand why people are so obsessed with
his story and not obsessed with other stories. And the
reason why it's very easy because they think that Trump
is the bad guy. They don't even think that MS
thirteen is the bad guy or the individual who's in
prison and El Salvador is the bad guy. The only
bad guy is the Trump in that administration. So that's
why media obsesses about this story and ask questions to

(01:17:42):
Tom Holman, like, was this a mistake that shouldn't happen again,
even if multiple federal judges, as he said, pointed to
his alleged but seemingly significantly proven ties to a gang
that's increasingly and horrifically violent within our country. All Right,
other story, just doing a round robin of big things

(01:18:02):
out there. Harvard is getting a lot of discussion, and
the amount of money they get from the federal government,
the endowments is getting a lot of discussion because the
Trump administration paused about two point two billion dollars in
federal grants. Harvard gets fifty billion dollars in government money,
so two point two billion doesn't feel like a significant

(01:18:24):
hit to them compared to what it would be to
the rest of us to have two point two billion withheld.
I feel like mine's been getting withheld forever, my whole life.
They've been withholding that two point two billion for me.
But nonetheless, what I think is so interesting about this
and CNN did a deep dive into all the ways
that two billion dollars could still hurt Harvard because of

(01:18:45):
a disagreement with the Trump administration on things like DEI
and whether or not we should give you government dollars
if you're going to publicly support things that we don't
think make any sense.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
That is simply the discussion.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
And certainly one of the richest schools in the country
can probably figure out a way to recover the two
point two billion from its own, you know, alumni, if
it so had to. I just think every part of
that is amazing that this is all over the news
and talked about as well, and no one really seems
to mention the fact that it's a two point two
of a fifty billion dollar endowment that may or may

(01:19:21):
not actually have the impact that you might want it
to have, or think that it's having on a school
that you may not even care about it all if
you didn't actually go there. But anyway, that's a big
topic all over the news. And then finally, this last
story not being covered as many places as I think
it should be, But in honor of Good Friday, I
wanted to touch on it a little bit. A recent

(01:19:42):
survey that was conducted in December of twenty twenty four
found that more young people are turning to Christianity Catholicism,
specifically because of a myriad of things. Seventy two percent
of those who are becoming, you know, members of a
certain faith are young. Thirty percent of new converts are

(01:20:04):
saying the reason why they're doing this is because there's
a lot of people in their lives that simply lack faith,
and because of that sort of disparity, they're turning toward faith.
Other reasons that people give is the pandemic, the internet itself,
and then, as I said, a distaste for alternatives that
are being presented by you know, family members, friends, whoever.

(01:20:28):
What I think is fascinating about this and I think
it's specific to the pandemic or personal struggle kind of
reasons that people might turn to faith. And I've mentioned
this before too, but I got to know a lot
of veterans during time in my radio career, and I
hope to do that again through a few different things.
But one thing I've learned about veterans, and specifically about

(01:20:49):
their faith, is that you can find God in a
fox hole fairly easily because of how afraid you are
of you know, some of the other stuff. I'm not
trying to call anybody fearful in any sort of negative way.
I just mean that you're putting your life on the line.
I think cops, I think firefighters might have a similar
sense of this. And more and more people in our society,
for whatever reason, feel some level of risk in their life,

(01:21:12):
whether it's financial risk or actual like you know, physical
health safety risks, and for that reason you turn toward
something that helps you answer some questions that you can't
answer yourself. I think that's actually inherently a good thing.
I don't know that it's it's ideal. I'll say that
that the thing turning you toward faith is you know

(01:21:33):
your own personal fears as opposed to something else making
you find it. But it doesn't really matter as long
as it's happening at all, because I do think one
of the biggest challenges in our society right now.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
And I'm not telling you what faith to have.

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
I'm not getting on the soapbox and telling you you
got to be the same thing that I am. I'm
just saying that I think that that version of believing
that you have to treat your fellow man a certain
way because some authority, not on earth but somewhere else
is going to hold you accountable to that behavior at
some point after everything is over for you causes a

(01:22:10):
lot of us to act differently in life. It causes
a lot of us to not necessarily want to be
in verbal fights or war or whatever you might call
it with other individuals in your life. The way we
do on social media, the way that everyone needs to
hate everybody else. It feels like a component of that
would be alleviated in our society if more of us

(01:22:31):
were grounded in a faith of some kind. And so
I think it's really interesting that young people are gravitating
toward this, and they're doing it because of their own
personal struggle, Because inevitably it might make society a little
bit better. I can't imagine it'll make society worse in
any way, shape or form, And I don't often hear
people make that argument. One last thing, totally not a

(01:22:53):
big news story, but something else that I noticed that
I thought was interesting. Many employees of different companies are
taking mental health leaves of absence. Whether this is a
few days or longer, they're taking a burnout break, is
what they're calling it. Online, Many people saying that they
just simply need the mental time away to be better

(01:23:15):
at their job, to be better at whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
I actually support this. I actually think this is fine.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
As long as you have the time off and you
can take it, and you choose not to go on vacation,
but just to you know, be around your house at home.
I'm not sure that it would qualify as sick days
the same way that we expect sick days to work.
But if you're taking mental health vacation, that seems to
be fine for me, because I do think a lot
of people that over time, in whatever space you're in,

(01:23:41):
whatever workplace you're in, eventually just get to a point
where you're like, man, I can't keep doing this every
day without some kind of sweet, sweet, delicious break somewhere
in there. Take the time you need, is what a
lot of the experts say too about this, and even
be honest, tell managers, colleagues, whoever you need to tell
the reasons for your absence and what it's about, and

(01:24:04):
see if they're going to be understanding of those sort
of things.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
I don't hate this.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
I know that it might be trendy to say that,
you know, people are simply weaker than they used to
be in needing this, but I do think part of
this would probably make you a better employee, especially if
you're someone who's admitting that you're not doing so great
at the job for these reasons. Maybe some time away
will make you more productive, which is what companies probably
want in the long run anyway. So I just think

(01:24:28):
it's interesting that this tied to maybe even some of
the health stuff and the religious stuff I was talking
to a second ago, are all unique focuses of younger
people which might actually make society better in some ways.
Whether that actually happens or not, who knows, But I
think there's some reasons to be helpful, especially on this
holiday or just before the holiday, especially since it's a

(01:24:48):
faith based holiday. But all right, I will take a
break on that note. We have more stuff coming up,
including a boyfriend who got in a lot of trouble
on the internet.

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My name mus Craig Collins filling in a brand new
study online conducted by someone who probably gossips a lot,
a board certified psychiatrist actually found that it's mentally healthy
to gossip. This means that you find people in your
life that you trust, that you think are you actual friends,
and you talk craft about other people. The reason it's

(01:27:21):
mentally healthy is because of the bonding experience for the
two people who are saying the bad things about the
other person behind their back, not because actually saying bad
stuff to someone's back and not their face is in fact,
in enough itself good. It's probably not great, and any
sort of conflict that might arise from it later on
is also not great. But the simple act of bonding

(01:27:41):
with someone and demonstrating some unique amount of trust in
saying stuff that you wouldn't say to other people is
in fact a good thing for your brain. So gossip
away is what they're saying on social media or what
they're saying after the study, because there's a mental health
component to.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
It that or I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
Just trust people and demonstr you trust people in your
life without talking crap about others, either one one or
the other, it might have the same effect. Another story
out there that I saw and I thought was interesting.
A boyfriend was accused of quote stealing his girlfriend's moment
as she was running a marathon. This happened in the UK.
The woman's name is Daphne. As she was approaching the

(01:28:20):
finish line, a bunch of her friends and family jumped
into the race and started running with her. Her mom
is even holding up a giant sign that has a
picture of her child behind her, you know, talking about
the achievement of finishing the race, something Daphne said she
did an hour later than she expected to do it
because of unique challenges, but she was proud of herself

(01:28:41):
to do it at all. The reason the boyfriend's getting
crapped on is he jumped in the way of her
for a split second to kiss her. Even though all
her friends and family were running around her. None of
them slowed her down, darn it. So they're good guys,
and this boyfriend's a terrible person for upstaging her. That's
at least what the Internet told me. Craig Collins filling
in on the Jet Benton Show. I do think it's

(01:29:03):
hilarious though, that all the other people who were equally
distracting that she was smiling and looking at as she's
running this race were in no way, shape or form
vilified by media, just the dude or social media because
he did full on getting her way, and she did
seem like she wanted to keep running the rays and
not have him kiss her, but she also seemed very
happy and smiley, and the picture and the photo and

(01:29:24):
the video she put up in social media all seemed
to thank him and everyone for making her moment even
better at least for her experience.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
But the Internet will have none of that, darn it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
We will only see it as a negative because this
one stupid man did something terrible where a bunch of
other people, mostly women, were doing something almost the same
without necessarily kissing her.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
And that's totally fine. Darn it. That's actually encouraged. We
should do that more.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
One final story that I'll probably get to a little
bit later on. I don't think we'll have enough time
to break it down now, but I do love it.
A social media influencer who got a lot of surgery
over the last couple of years, a lot of cosmetic
surgery to change her looks significantly. Her name is Jessica,
and she spells it with a G to be more annoying.

(01:30:10):
But Jessica had so many surgeries that she recently was
stopped by a customs officer because her face did not
match her passport at all. It was profoundly different, and
people did not believe that she was the person in
the photo. Because if you get a bunch of cosmetic
surgery and change what you look like, you probably have
to do a new passport photo and at least try
to tell people it's still me man, because she got in.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
Trouble for it not looking like her at all.

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
Quick break a lot more Greg Collins filling in on

Speaker 13 (01:30:49):
Such Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
stuff to talk about just before the holidays, including, of course,
the story being talked about everywhere in the world of politics.
Although probably not impacting your life, Bettle. Probably almost no
one out there, may be a very very small amount
of people who actually know this person have any impact

(01:31:37):
whatsoever on their lives, and yet we need to talk
about it apparently. But I thought this was great. This
was Scott Jennings unloading on CNN on the whole Van
Holland Democrats loving and embracing Abrego Garcia, the individual Kilmar
Brago Garcia who's currently in Salvador, in prison there, who

(01:31:59):
was raw deported even by an admission by the Trump administration,
but very very likely an MS thirteen gang member according
to multiple judges and multiple other people, and also someone
who had a restraining order requested by his then wife
in twenty twenty one for multiple accusations of beating her.

(01:32:20):
This is, among other things that are now coming out
as far as the legal challenges of Kilbrago Garcia, someone
who for some reason is being thought of as you know,
a hero or a victim for the left. Here's what
Scott Jennings said about it just the other.

Speaker 22 (01:32:35):
Day, and I think, boy, the Party of Women is
really covering itself in glory tonight. I mean, I don't
understand why the American left falls in love with the
worst people. You've got a gangbanging, human trafficking, wife beating
illegal alien and a United States Senator and a ludicrous
display of energy is in El Salvador having Mataz and Yanzi.

(01:32:55):
I do not get it. I do not understand why
the left takes I think, look, I'm not allegedly.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
I don't United States senator? Is he not the allegedly
in there somewhere? Because the left wants to believe that
none of those things that Abrego Garcia is accused of
are actually things that he did. They want to believe that.
They don't have any reason to believe that, but they
just want to believe that. They're like, wow, we don't know,
because if he is actually a bad person who's done
bad things, then it's much harder for us to defend him.

(01:33:29):
So we're just going to assume that every single thing
that he's been accused of doing, even by his wife
who said that he would beat her, well, they all
got to be liars.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
That's the only way to go about this. That no
one can be telling the truth.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
And multiple judges who confirmed that they believed that there
was sufficient proof that he was a member of MS
thirteen and the reason that he's even being kept in
this country in the first place, or at least was
allowed to stay after illegal coming illegally coming here, is
that in twenty nineteen, he said that because of his
ties to thirteen, he couldn't go back to El Salvador

(01:34:02):
because a rival gang that no longer exists but did
then would hurt him. I don't know why you'd be
in jeopardy of being harmed by a rival gang if
you don't actually have ties to one, but darn it,
that doesn't matter. None of that matters. And the people
were up in arms on the CNN television when Scott
Jennings said the things he did, because they have to

(01:34:23):
assume they're false. That's the only way to go the
road you go with this sort of thing. And you
know what's amazing, We've learned this lesson multiple times before.
But media likes to shoot the messenger, especially if they
think the messenger comes from the wrong side of the
political aisle or the wrong side of certain political circles. Well,
then darn it, they can't possibly be telling the truth

(01:34:43):
no matter what it is that they say. And as
I said, this lesson has been taught to them. We
have seen it happen. You know, the Hunter Biden laptop story,
the one that media most willingly admits now that they
got wrong. And they got it wrong because they couldn't
trust horrible t terrable Rudy Giuliani. They didn't do any
research to figure out whether or not the things he

(01:35:04):
was saying was true, because darn it, why would they
do that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
That doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
I know whether or not something is true based on
who's talking to me, not what they're saying, and not
how much fact how much information actually backs the position up.
It's insane, And yet it's happening all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
We have a bunch of.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
This, all right, other stuff going on in the world
beside just that story and all the kind of fallout
and discussion of it. Of course, and I haven't talked
about this as much today as maybe you would have
expected me to. There was a shooting yesterday in Florida.
The aspects of that case are still things that people

(01:35:42):
will learn. Students at Florida State gathered today for memorials.
Two lives were lost. The person that is accused of
this shooting is someone who was tied to actually the
child of a police officer. All of that is stuff
that matters, and all of that is stuff that's being

(01:36:02):
talked about quite a bit. I'm not going to give
out the name of the twenty year old who did this,
and they are, you know, the son of a local
sheriff's deputy, because I don't give out the names of shooters.
I don't like the idea that they get notoriety from
this sort of thing. But I will say that predictably
the discussion has transitioned to gun control, and while I

(01:36:25):
don't want to lose focus on what actually matters, so
I will talk a little bit more about the person
who committed this crime. In just a second, I will say,
in response to the obvious pivot to gun control, that
the gun used was a handgun and actually at one
point a shotgun, and those would never be banned by
any sort of legislation, So legislation wouldn't have prevented this crime.

(01:36:48):
And yet that doesn't matter to the media and the
left that want to transition every story like this into
a story about how gun control and essentially, you know,
conservatives who don't want to support it are in fact
the real bad guys, not the person who actually commits
the crime itself. Some of the other information that's come
out about this individual, and some of this is alleged.

(01:37:10):
Whether you know, you know, whether this will wind up
being proven to be true in a courtroom or not,
we haven't seen yet, and I usually like to wait
for that. But there are some saying that there's information
that he was a quote unquote white supremacist or had
white supremacist beliefs. I will simply and quickly refer to
the idea of that as obviously something that's terrible, obviously

(01:37:32):
not something that anyone supports. And President Trump yesterday said
that the whole thing was a tragedy and horrible and awful,
and of course the person responsible is a terrible person.
But what I think is really interesting about that aspect
of this discussion, too, if it takes off, is again
trying to pivot the blame or say the you know,

(01:37:54):
real bad guy in society to something other than the shooter,
to say, well, this person was right, and obviously there
must be other people out there that think and believe
certain things that radicalize them to think and believe certain things.
I don't know why we can't blame the shooter the
most for harming people more than the weapon of choice

(01:38:15):
or the you know, reasons for doing it, but actually
blame the person who chose to hurt other people and
say that this person is evil, this person is bad,
and find a way in our society to solve these
problems by focusing on the individuals, maybe what radicalize them.
That's fine, but all of it through you know, the
lens of the shooter did something horrible, and that's the

(01:38:38):
thing that most matters, not pivoting to who is not involved,
didn't do anything horrible, but has to somehow be involved
and has to also be terrible, regardless of you know,
any fact surrounding it. It's sort of crazy, but that
essentially is where we're at. And so on Good Friday,
just before a religious holiday, we are talking about school

(01:39:01):
shooting and gun control and all this other stuff instead
of focusing on the actual perpetrator of the crime. As
I say that, there's another story out there that's also
making me quite upset. This is the story of Carmelo Anthony, No,
not the basketball player, the young man who is accused
of and many people seem to witness him stabbing to

(01:39:25):
death another high school student at a track meet in Texas.
What really really matters about this, like the most important
part of the entirety of this story, at least in
my opinion, is that the father of metcalf who was killed,

(01:39:45):
has said many times in different media that he wants
to forgive the person responsible for killing his son. Jeff
Metcalf wants to forgive Austin Metcalfe's killer because his faith
asks him to do it. And yet, for some reason,
during a press conference the other day, the people involved

(01:40:05):
with Carmelo Anthony wanted to make Jeff into a horrible,
terrible person because he showed up at a press conference.
He willingly left when they asked him to leave, but
he showed up to hear what they were going to
say about what happened to his son. And again, the
person who was being defended or whatever was happening with
them was the person who took the life of his son.

(01:40:29):
It is surreal, and I will go ahead and play
some of this audio to hear people say this, and
to believe the reason they could say this is because
they can paint the picture that Jeff Metcalf is somehow
a bad person because he's at this event, which is insane.

Speaker 18 (01:40:47):
And all I'm going to say so it don't be
asked later as that was disrespectful and just shows you
all the character who is not invited, he knows that
is inappropriate to be near this family, but he did it.

(01:41:11):
And so I say to people, actions speak louder than words.

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
Again, Austin Metcalf's father, Jeff Metcalf, his words have been
to forgive the person, Carmel Anthony, responsible for killing his
teenage son. That has been his words. His actions of
showing up and then willingly leaving a press conference when
he's told he's had to leave do not change my
opinion of the man whatsoever. And it's amazing, it's horrific.

(01:41:39):
It's a lot of things I can't say on the radio.
To hear someone that's gonna defend this young man and say,
for whatever reason, certain things happened, that it was disrespectful
for the father of the victim to even show up
at the press conference.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
That's insane.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
And it's not that long ago that people who are
tied to someone used of a crime like this, with
witnesses that are going to say it happened, and with
a defense that sounds like they're going to admit that
it happened, not saying that they're deeply sorry to the
family of the victim, but saying get out, you don't
deserve to be around us. That is incredible and I

(01:42:17):
can't get over how appalling and terrible it actually is
as well. All right, quick break, a little bit more
coming up on a holiday show. Creig Collins filling in
on the Chad Benson Show.

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You stink like fear and white male privilege.

Speaker 7 (01:43:43):
To me, I do often out myself verbally as a younger.
My pronouns are they them?

Speaker 11 (01:43:49):
And I'm proud to be a gender.

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Not a great way to use your white privilege.

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Speaker 1 (01:44:05):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):

Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in for a few
more minutes just before the holidays, Chad. I'll be back
on Tuesday. I'll be back with you on Monday. Actually,
one of the most popular streaming things online right now.
They're calling it reality TV, but it's really just a
website you can go to stream a thing is just
wild Moose and I'm not gonna say that differently. It's

(01:44:34):
moose c TV. According to at least a couple sources
out there trying to make a very bad joke. Sweden's
now iconic live stream of the Great Moose Migration has
been seen by millions of people. It's very similar to
the people who watch bears before they hibernate or anything
else on the internet. It's really just cameras set up

(01:44:57):
in the wild that show you a different animals walking
past them. I clicked on the live stream to talk
about it at some point during the show today.

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
I've glanced at it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Multiple times, and unfortunately I'm giving them another click. I
think nine million people have been watching this stream at
some point over the last few days, and it's incredibly boring.
I don't get it. There's two things I can't do
on the internet. This sounds like a weird setup, but
I promise it'll make sense then a lot of other
people do on the internet. Still sounds like a weird setup.

(01:45:28):
The first one is just watch animals in the wild.
I don't get it. I'm not in the wild with them.
There's nothing entertaining about it to me. You can set
up a camera pointing at animals doing whatever. Penguins, bears, moose,
I don't care, and when I see it, it's boring.
The other one is watch people play video games. I
don't understand how people make a lot of money doing this.

(01:45:49):
I know that people do, but I would rather play
a video game, or not play a video game than
watch someone I don't know online play a video game
that I'm nowhere near them to also play.

Speaker 2 (01:46:00):
It just makes no sense to me.

Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
I would like to go to the wilderness if I
want to see any of these animals, which may or
may not be a smart decision, but it's what i'd
like to do. And I'd also like to, as I said,
play video games, or at least be in the same
place as people who are playing them, instead of watching
them do it on the internet. I can't get over that.
But a lot of people watch these things. A lot
of people seem to love this stuff. A nine million

(01:46:24):
people watching the Great Moose Migration of twenty twenty five,
And I can't get over even saying that sentence. All right,
other things out there quickly before we get out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
I have one adult topic.

Speaker 3 (01:46:36):
I'm going to wait till the very end of the
show to talk about that, because as a strategy, I
like to run into time on the topics that can
get me in trouble on the radio before I do that.
One other thing that's not, you know, inappropriate in nature,
but just weird. A lot of young men want to
be as skinny as Timothy Shalomey, at least that's what
they're saying online. So some people are taking this to extremes.

(01:46:58):
People who are five eight five and trying to weigh
in the one hundred and twenty pound range, which is
absolutely unhealthy, are talking about how they're trying to be
real skinny dudes.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
What I think is uniquely.

Speaker 3 (01:47:09):
Odd about this story is that when I was growing
up as a kid in high school and in grade school,
I was incredibly skinny.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
I didn't want to be.

Speaker 3 (01:47:17):
I just was, and I wish I had been bigger,
and I was fairly ashamed of how skinny I was.
And now apparently it's something that's tremendously popular and kids
want to be it, even if it's putting their health
at risk.

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
I don't do this.

Speaker 3 (01:47:29):
You'd rather be in shape, I imagine you'd rather be
capable of, say, defending someone that might be trying to
hurt someone you care about than not being able to
do that, as I remember oftentimes in school when I
was little guy, not being all that, you know, intimidating
if anything happened that I would need to be intimidating
during All right, this is the last one. This is
the topic that I'm going to let time run out on.

(01:47:51):
A woman has gone viral. She is the type of
model on a certain website that I won't mention here,
But she's gone viral because she has a mission. She
wants to teach men how to be more romantic in
the bedroom, how to be better at certain things. So
after she is romantic with a man, she gives them
notes she essentially grades them on their performance. Her name

(01:48:12):
is Annabelle. I'm not going to give her last name out.
She is twenty seven years old. She went viral on
the internet for doing the service to women everywhere of
trying to help men be better at certain things again
by being intimate with them and then giving them a
breakdown of how they performed after the fact. I feel

(01:48:33):
like that can't possibly go as well as she thinks
it does, and can't possibly be the kind of thing
that many people would want to hear from her on
but she feels like she's an expert on it, and
that's the work she's going to keep doing in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
And I'm out of time. Darn it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
Craig Collins, filling in on The Chad Benson Show. Wait
a minute, I'm not out of time. I have a
little bit more time to talk about this. All right, fine,
we'll do a few more seconds on this story, probably
something that she also says she'd like a little bit more.
I'm on her own when she gives reviews, and that
felt inappropriate. But are a Belle, excuse me, not Annabelle

(01:49:06):
or a Belle twenty seven years old doesn't seem to
it all be shy about the fact that she's choosing
to have as many romantic friends as humanly possible in
trying to teach people how to.

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
Be better and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
She's also very willingly exposing the idea that she's got
way too many friends.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
So on that note, I'm out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
Craig Collin's filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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